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Sherlock from the TV series of the same name, L from Death Note and Dexter from Dexter.

The scenario is that this is the start of Dexter season 2. The case of the Bay Harbor Butcher has just been opened and Sherlock and L have announced that they are on the case.

Sherlock has Watson for back up, L has Watari and as Dexter has the home court advantage he has whatever he did at the the start of season 2. But they can use whatever they have in their bank account and all have accommodation and whatever they can persuade the police to give them in the case of the detectives, because they do not have their cooperation at the start.

L and Sherlock need to catch Dexter to win, winner is the first to do so, Dexter needs to either stump them or make it impossible for them to catch him and in 2 months he wins by default.

Don't know much about L (anime/manga is, as we all know, a queer's medium), but Dexter isn't remotely close to Sherlock, intellectually. I doubt a home turf advantage will make a difference.

I say Sherlock takes it. Either way, though, Dexter isn't coming out of this a free man.

Wait, is L the guy from Death Note that has been described as "like Artemis Fowl, but worse"? Because if so, then he'll probably take it.

Originally posted by The_Tempest
Don't know much about L (anime/manga is, as we all know, a queer's medium), but Dexter isn't remotely close to Sherlock, intellectually. I doubt a home turf advantage will make a difference.

L is pretty damn good. He was able to identify a killer who could supernaturally kill anyone he wants so long as he has a name and a face, without leaving any evidence via heart attack.

Originally posted by Nephthys
L is pretty damn good. He was able to identify a killer who could supernaturally kill anyone he wants so long as he has a name and a face, without leaving any evidence via heart attack. He still lost

That was such a disappointment. The win wasn't deserved in Season 2. It was in Season 1.

Originally posted by Nephthys
L is pretty damn good. He was able to identify a killer who could supernaturally kill anyone he wants so long as he has a name and a face, without leaving any evidence via heart attack.

A little vague, but that does sound a bit above Sherlock's pay grade. Either way, Dexter is pwn3d.

Well, that is true.

Edit: Eh, for both of you.

Sherlock > L, and this Sherlock has shown to be as smart as the original iirc. They can both claim a victory, but Holmes will get there first.

Dexter's neat, maybe as neat and careful as Light. L only suspected Light because he met the characteristics of the killer and even then didn't fully believe it was him. The only suspicious things about Dexter is that he works in forensics and really enjoys bloodwork, and nothing points to those things being notable in this case. Other things like killing animals as a kid, being 'born in blood' and his 'code' about who he targets, the only things that point to Dex, were only known by his now dead dad.

There is no DNA or profiling that will point to the Butcher's identity as none of the profiling techniques will give anything close to Dexter due to vagueness and for Dexter not being that suspicions. The only thing that connects them is that one of the Butcher's victims was let off the hook due to bad blood work. Don't think Dex is named in this though.

There are two ways to catch him; Catch him in the act or finding his trophy box. Former is a difficult task on it own as half the time his targets aren't well known or even known to be criminals, and it become an even harder task as Dexter knows two professionals will be on his case. Only once from two occasions has someone found his box of slides, and it was with an obsessed character who was sure Dexter was the killer. L or Sherlock could likely find it, but they would have to be on the scene to do so, something Sherlock is more likely to do. L if he can fix some cameras up, though Dexter has been able to both realise he's been bugged and have his 6th sense triggered when someone entered his house without him knowing. Doakes found out he was the killer because of his stalker-leveled obsessed with Dex, finding out about the bad blood work, finding the box and putting a tracer on his boat. But to get to this stage they would have to suspect it was Dexter or a person like his character or profession.



Saying this again; one of the detectives will definitely be able to catch him, Im just not sure how.



Edit: 'Kay time to make the above a waste of time. Legendary FBI serial killer expert Frank Lundy got dangerously close to solving it. Snippet from a summery site:

"Agent Lundy has his team working on the assumption that the Bay Harbor Butcher is in law enforcement. Later, he, with the help of Angel and Debra, manages to narrow the search down even further: the Butcher works in that very police department. The noose tightens around Dexter's neck as Lundy uncovers some bad blood work Dexter did - deliberately bad work that led to a killer going free (which allowed Dexter the opportunity to murder him)."

Sherlock and L would probably be better at this (I say probably as Lundy has around 40 years of profiling serial killers, so may be more of an expert in this one area), so they could get to a suspect list pretty fast. Still a matter of evidence, but meh.